Intercultural pragmatics addresses one of the major issues of human communication in the globalized world: how do people interact with each other in a language other than their native tongue, and with native speakers of the language of interaction? Bringing together a globally-representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides an authoritative overview to this fascinating field of study, as well as a theoretical framework. Chapters are grouped into 5 thematic areas: theoretical foundation, key issues in Intercultural Pragmatics research, the interface between Intercultural Pragmatics and related disciplines, Intercultural Pragmatics in different types of communication, and language learning. It addresses key concepts and research issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, and will trigger fresh lines of enquiry and generate new research questions. Comprehensive in its scope, it is essential reading not only for scholars of pragmatics, but also of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, communication, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and second language teaching and learning. ‘… this is a praiseworthy publication that digs deep into the intercultural perspective of actual language use and IP research, and sheds a clear light on how speakers’ intercultural interactions function ‘in an era in which multilingualism rather than monolingualism is the norm’.’ Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Corpus Pragmatics ‘This is no doubt a comprehensive volume which introduces the reader to a mix of more traditional frameworks and more recent approaches in this still new field.’ Elisabeth Reber, The Year’s Work in English Studies The first overview of the rapidly growing field of intercultural pragmatics, with chapters on key concepts and research directions. Istvan Kecskes is a Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York at Albany. He is the President of the American Pragmatics Association and the Chinese as a Second Language Research Association. Notable publications include Intercultural Pragmatics (Oxford University Press, 2014) and English as a Lingua Franca: The pragmatic perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is the founding editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics, the Mouton Series in Pragmatics, and the bilingual journal Chinese as a Second Language Research.